1. Where does Aunt Polly find Tom?
2. What has Tom been eating that he wasn't supposed to eat?
3. How is Aunt Polly related to Tom?
4. Who is Jim?
5. What does Tom do when he plays hooky?
6. What is Tom's recent accomplishment?
7. What task does Polly give Tom as punishment?
8. What is Ben Rogers doing when he comes across Tom?
9. What does Ben trade to Tom?
10. What person does Tom make up to threaten the stranger with?
11. When Tom beats up the strange boy, what does he tell the boy to holler to make him stop?
12. What does the stranger do through the window while Tom stands outside his house?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 3
1. What does Polly give Tom as reward for finishing his chore?
2. What does Tom throw at Sid as he leaves?
3. What role do Tom and Joe Harper take in the battle?
4. Who wins the battle?
5. Who is Amy Lawrence?
6. What does Tom do when he sees the new girl?
7. What does the new girl throw to Tom?
8. What does Sid do that Tom gets blamed for?
9. What does Tom steal as he goes out to play after whitewashing the fence?
10. What does Tom imagine after his aunt hits him and does not apologize?
11. Where has Tom's cousin Mary been for the last week?
12. Where does Tom go to be alone?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 4 and 5
1. What does Mary promise Tom for memorizing his Bible verses?
2. What is Tom's reaction to his bath?
3. Why are the Sunday School students given colored tickets?
4. How does Tom get his tickets?
5. What can the children get with their Sunday School tickets?
6. Who comes to visit the Sunday School class?
7. How many tickets are needed to earn a prize?
8. Who has earned the most rewards in Tom's Sunday School?
9. What does Tom answer when the judge asks him who the first two apostles were?
10. What does Tom try to do during the sermon?
11. What does Tom take out of his pocket during church?
12. What animal gets into a conflict with the bug Tom has brought into church?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 6
1. What is the only thing Tom finds wrong with him, when he wakes up Monday morning?
2. Where has Tom heard of the ailment he fakes
3. What is the potential consequence Tom heard that the illness could have
4. How does Tom wake Sid
5. Does Sid believe Tom is sick?
6. What does Tom say is wrong with him?
7. What is Aunt Polly's reaction to Tom's professed illness?
8. Who does Tom meet on his way to school?
9. What does Aunt Polly do about Tom's loose tooth?
10. What does Tom trade his tooth for?
11. Why does the teacher seat Tom with the girls?
12. What does Tom give to Becky?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 7 and 8
1. What do Tom and Joe use to play with the tick?
2. What serves as a field for their tick game?
3. What is the object of the game?
4. Who breaks the rules of the game?
5. Where does Becky meet Tom at lunchtime?
6. What does Tom ask Becky?
7. What does Tom do that makes Becky cry?
8. What does Tom offer Becky to console her?
9. What thought discourages Tom from committing suicide?
10. What does Tom decide to run away to become?
11. What game does Tom play with Joe Harper?
12. What does Tom "die" of during the game?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 9
1. What time is it, when Tom thinks it must be dawn while he is waiting to meet Huck?
2. What wakes Tom?
3. What noise does Tom make out the window, before climbing down?
4. How long does it take the boys to get to the cemetery?
5. What does Tom say the sound of the wind in the trees might be?
6. Where is the graveyard located?
7. Who do Tom and Huck think Muff Potter, Injun Joe, and Doctor Robinson are when they first approach?
8. What do the three men have with them?
9. What are the men at the graveyard for?
10. What do the men fight over?
11. What happens to the doctor?
12. What does Muff leave behind?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 10
1. What does Huck tell Tom is bound to happen if the doctor is dead?
2. Why doesn't Huck want to tell what the boys saw?
3. What does Tom write the pact between the boys on?
4. What do the boys use to prick their fingers?
5. How does Huck sign his name?
6. What does Tom say will happen if the boys break their pact?
7. What do Tom and Huck take as an omen that they will die?
8. Why do the boys realize they're mistaken about the omen?
9. Who do the boys find sleeping in their hideout?
10. What wakes Tom the next morning?
11. What does Aunt Polly do to Tom for going out at night?
12. How does Tom feel when he gets to school?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 1 and 2
1. Where does Aunt Polly find Tom?
2. What has Tom been eating that he wasn't supposed to eat?
3. How is Aunt Polly related to Tom?
4. Who is Jim?
5. What does Tom do when he plays hooky?
6. What is Tom's recent accomplishment?
7. What task does Polly give Tom as punishment?
8. What is Ben Rogers doing when he comes across Tom?
9. What does Ben trade to Tom?
10. What person does Tom make up to threaten the stranger with?
11. When Tom beats up the strange boy, what does he tell the boy to holler to make him stop?
12. What does the stranger do through the window while Tom stands outside his house?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 3
1. What does Polly give Tom as reward for finishing his chore?
2. What does Tom throw at Sid as he leaves?
3. What role do Tom and Joe Harper take in the battle?
4. Who wins the battle?
5. Who is Amy Lawrence?
6. What does Tom do when he sees the new girl?
7. What does the new girl throw to Tom?
8. What does Sid do that Tom gets blamed for?
9. What does Tom steal as he goes out to play after whitewashing the fence?
10. What does Tom imagine after his aunt hits him and does not apologize?
11. Where has Tom's cousin Mary been for the last week?
12. Where does Tom go to be alone?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 4 and 5
1. What does Mary promise Tom for memorizing his Bible verses?
2. What is Tom's reaction to his bath?
3. Why are the Sunday School students given colored tickets?
4. How does Tom get his tickets?
5. What can the children get with their Sunday School tickets?
6. Who comes to visit the Sunday School class?
7. How many tickets are needed to earn a prize?
8. Who has earned the most rewards in Tom's Sunday School?
9. What does Tom answer when the judge asks him who the first two apostles were?
10. What does Tom try to do during the sermon?
11. What does Tom take out of his pocket during church?
12. What animal gets into a conflict with the bug Tom has brought into church?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 6
1. What is the only thing Tom finds wrong with him, when he wakes up Monday morning?
2. Where has Tom heard of the ailment he fakes
3. What is the potential consequence Tom heard that the illness could have
4. How does Tom wake Sid
5. Does Sid believe Tom is sick?
6. What does Tom say is wrong with him?
7. What is Aunt Polly's reaction to Tom's professed illness?
8. Who does Tom meet on his way to school?
9. What does Aunt Polly do about Tom's loose tooth?
10. What does Tom trade his tooth for?
11. Why does the teacher seat Tom with the girls?
12. What does Tom give to Becky?
Short Answer Questions - Chapters 7 and 8
1. What do Tom and Joe use to play with the tick?
2. What serves as a field for their tick game?
3. What is the object of the game?
4. Who breaks the rules of the game?
5. Where does Becky meet Tom at lunchtime?
6. What does Tom ask Becky?
7. What does Tom do that makes Becky cry?
8. What does Tom offer Becky to console her?
9. What thought discourages Tom from committing suicide?
10. What does Tom decide to run away to become?
11. What game does Tom play with Joe Harper?
12. What does Tom "die" of during the game?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 9
1. What time is it, when Tom thinks it must be dawn while he is waiting to meet Huck?
2. What wakes Tom?
3. What noise does Tom make out the window, before climbing down?
4. How long does it take the boys to get to the cemetery?
5. What does Tom say the sound of the wind in the trees might be?
6. Where is the graveyard located?
7. Who do Tom and Huck think Muff Potter, Injun Joe, and Doctor Robinson are when they first approach?
8. What do the three men have with them?
9. What are the men at the graveyard for?
10. What do the men fight over?
11. What happens to the doctor?
12. What does Muff leave behind?
Short Answer Questions - Chapter 10
1. What does Huck tell Tom is bound to happen if the doctor is dead?
2. Why doesn't Huck want to tell what the boys saw?
3. What does Tom write the pact between the boys on?
4. What do the boys use to prick their fingers?
5. How does Huck sign his name?
6. What does Tom say will happen if the boys break their pact?
7. What do Tom and Huck take as an omen that they will die?
8. Why do the boys realize they're mistaken about the omen?
9. Who do the boys find sleeping in their hideout?
10. What wakes Tom the next morning?
11. What does Aunt Polly do to Tom for going out at night?
12. How does Tom feel when he gets to school?